Design and Architecture
Designer Camp, Louis Kahn barge, Architectural Imagination
Pack your bags, we're off to summer camp! But forget lanyards and campfire singalongs. We visit a boutique camp for teen designers. Los Angeles architects take "The Architectural Imagination" to Detroit. Do their dreams offer more hope than grassroots solutions? Louis Kahn's floating concert hall has sent up an SOS. Can a Hudson Valley town save it from the scrapyard?
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenPhoto: A participant at Designer Camp in West Hollywood sketches out an idea. (Sarah Shreves)
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3 storiesA summer camp for teens with design dreams
Girls work on their group projects at Designer Camp Photo by Sarah Shreves Thousands of kids are at camp for the summer. And many will be horseback riding, making crafts and singing around the campfire. But what about a camp for kids who dream of having their own fashion or interior design empire? DnA producer Avishay Artsy went to the Big…
Read the story8 minSaving Louis Kahn's floating concert ship
Louis Kahn's floating concert hall faces demolition Courtesy spablab A floating masterpiece is sending out an SOS. A concert hall on a barge designed by Louis Kahn may wind up in a Louisiana scrapyard if a buyer does not come forward with $2 million. "Point Counterpoint II" was commissioned by Robert Boudreau shortly before Kahn's death in…
Read the story5 minThe controversial project to rethink Detroit architecture
Zago Architecture designed "A New Federal Project" as a conceptual approach to settling 68,000 refugees in Detroit.
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